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Bets on Iran war draw scrutiny

Jelinda Montes

Huge bets on unlikely futures have repeatedly popped up right before Trump announcements about the conflict

Attorney General Pam Bondi attends a press briefing held at the White House February 20, 2026 in Washington. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Getty Images)

DOJ gave Dems "damning" Trump memo

Garrett Owen

The DOJ shared a memo from Jack Smith's investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents

Lindy West attends the Hulu "Shrill" FYC screening at the Television Academy (Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu/Getty Images)

People really love to see feminists fail

Andi Zeisler

The reaction to Lindy West’s new memoir is a reminder of how quickly we discredit women

Lentil soup (Natalia Gdovskaia / Getty Images )

How I cook without relying on dairy

Ashlie D. Stevens

A shift in my health changed how I cook — and led me to deeper flavor, new habits and a different kind of comfort

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Is this WWIII? It's the wrong question

Troy Farah

If you're anxious about global conflict, you're not alone. But war is so different now we almost can't see it

An ICE agent at Atlanta's  Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

ICE at airports: Trump troll backfires

Amanda Marcotte

The deployment isn't triggering the liberals. But it may anger some voters Republicans need in November

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Trump's EPA rollback meets resistance

Jelinda Montes

EPA says it can’t regulate greenhouse gases — NRDC, Earth Justice and 24 Democratic-majority states beg to differ

Donald Trump takes questions at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 22, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

The GOP's losing the Latino vote again

Gary M. Segura, Matt A. Barreto - The Conversation

Trump is rapidly losing his gains among Latino voters

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and an image of the Meta logo. (DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)

Meta loses child exploitation case

Alex Galbraith

A jury in New Mexico found that the Facebook parent company enabled the sexual exploitation of minors

Steve Bannon speaks on stage during The Semafor 2025 World Economy Summit on April 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Shannon Finney/Getty Images for Semafor)

Bannon: ICE at airports is "test run"

Alex Galbraith

The former Trump adviser said ICE's presence in major airports is good practice for the midterm elections

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the White House on November 18, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Saudis pushed Trump to continue Iran war

Garrett Owen

A new report claims the Saudi crown prince encouraged a prolonged war with Iran

A woman grieving her parents (Justin Paget/Getty Images)

My parents died and left me 34 fish

Becky Robison

"My Parents Are Dead: What Now?" is a darkly funny guide to navigating grief and the paperwork that follows

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The beauty and brutality of '90s rock

Caryn Rose

"Even the Good Girls Will Cry" recounts the era's mythmaking and how the former Hole bassist managed to survive it

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (CARLOS BARRIA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Next for Cuba: A GOP oligarchy

Heather Digby Parton

Business and commerce are driving Donald Trump and Marco Rubio's desire to "take" Cuba

Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are among the Cabinet and White House officials who have been granted military housing (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

A Cabinet behind military gates

Chauncey DeVega

Housing officials on military bases has little precedent in U.S. history. It has plenty in authoritarian regimes

A general view of Tehran with smoke visible in the distance after explosions were reported in the city, on March 02, 2026. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)

Trump’s rising Iran War price tag

Garrett Owen

The Pentagon requests more than $200 billion for the war while the White House hasn't articulated a clear objective

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A child cries after his father is detained by federal agents as they left a court hearing in immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on August 26, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

ICE detains citizens' parents

Jeff Ernsthausen, Mario Ariza, McKenzie Funk, Mica Rosenberg, Gabriel Sandoval - ProPublica

When parents of underage U.S. citizens are detained, the kids are left in the lurch

In his second term, President Donald Trump is openly profiteering from the presidency (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump: Pass SAVE Act "for Jesus"

Alex Galbraith

The president pitched the voter ID bill as a higher calling before wondering if he would win in a fight with Elvis

Actor/stand-up comedian Bill Cosby arrives for sentencing for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse on September 24, 2018 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images)

Cosby loses $19 million assault case

Alex Galbraith

84-year-old Donna Motsinger accused Cosby of drugging, assaulting her in 1972

An Air Canada Express plane sits on the tarmac after it collided with a fire truck on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on March 23, 2026 in New York City. Two people are believed to have been killed in the late-night accident, with dozens injured. The plane had landed from a flight from Montreal. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

LaGuardia plane crash kills two

Alex Galbraith

In tower audio, an air traffic controller can be heard admitting they "messed up"

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A sheet pan dinner that actually works

Ashlie D. Stevens

Render the fat, blister the tomatoes, soften the feta — and let the pan do the rest

Michelle Pfeiffer as Stacy Clyburn in "The Madison" (Emerson Miller/Paramount+)

A woman's place is in an isolated cabin

Melanie McFarland

Taylor Sheridan's new show calls for abandoning scary city life for a rustic outhouse of one's own

Vice President JD Vance (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

How Iran emasculated JD Vance

Amanda Marcotte

The vice president’s alignment with Trump risks harming the persona he’s built with manosphere voters ahead of 2028

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Why AI chatbots are getting political

Russell Payne

Has Anthropic become the "liberal" chatbot, while OpenAI and Palantir go full MAGA? It's not that simple

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